… The role that female candidates will play in 2016 — and probably in most future presidential campaigns — helps highlight how attitudes have changed over the last 80 years. The changes over the decades can be described in one word: gradual. But the state of opinion today, about the […] Read more »
Why Hillary is asking America to see her candidacy as ‘historic’
In her presidential campaign kick-off speech and in a subsequent interview with Iowa media, Hillary Clinton leaned pretty hard into the notion that electing her president would represent a major historical breakthrough. … But it probably isn’t an accident that she noted that she’d be the first female president as […] Read more »
What do women really want in the workplace?
Independent Women’s Forum (IWF), as part of its principal Dollars and Sense Economics and Women at Work projects, commissioned Evolving Strategies (ES) to conduct a national Causal Conjoint Optimization (C2O) experiment to determine American women’s preferences in the workplace: What really matters to women – mothers and non-mothers, and those […] Read more »
Clinton is banking on the Obama coalition to win
Hillary Rodham Clinton is running as the most liberal Democratic presidential front-runner in decades, with positions on issues from gay marriage to immigration that would, in past elections, have put her at her party’s precarious left edge. The moves are part of a strategic conclusion by Clinton’s emerging campaign: that […] Read more »
Candidates Fight Over Abortion, but Public Has Surprising Level of Harmony
If you listen to party leaders, you might think that the nation is hopelessly divided on abortion. … But unlike the opinions of party activists and pundits, public opinion about women’s choices during their pregnancies yields surprising points of agreement across party lines. If you ask them specifics, Americans agree […] Read more »
American Men Embracing Gender Equality
The gender revolution has met the demographic revolution. A new survey of men’s attitudes toward women, family, and relations between the sexes has found much more similarity than difference among the perspectives of whites, African-Americans, Hispanics, and other minorities. That convergence suggests that changes in family and gender dynamics are […] Read more »